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PayPal Partners With Retailers To Pay By Phone

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:42:36 +0000

Chief Executive of EBay John Donahoe and Chief Financial Officer Bob Swan promised, earlier this year, to strike deals with twenty brick and mortar merchants allowing customers to pay via PayPal using their cellphones. Today, the two men completed their first round of fifteen such agreements, including Advance Auto Parts, American Eagle Outfitters, Jamba Juice, [...]

Test The New Disqus 2012 Right Here On Techcitement

Matt Algren — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:00:55 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that starting today, you’ll see a revamped comments section at the bottom of each Techcitement article. Disqus, the commenting service we use, began previewing on a broad scale its newest iteration nearly a month ago. After watching the improvements for a few weeks, we feel it’s now stable enough to roll [...]

TechCrunch’s Disrupt NYC Israeli Pavilion Roundup: Viewbix, Drippler, and Friendize.me

Reuven Shechter — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:15:57 +0000

I had the distinct pleasure to attend TechCrunch’s Disrupt expo this past Monday in New York City, where many startup companies exhibited their products for various news outlets, potential investors, and their peers. While Disrupt NYC had many different startups, as well as live blogged discussions, I focused on the Israeli startups, all located in [...]

Techcitement Guide: Graduate Your Graduates’ Smartphones

Reuven Shechter — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:25:46 +0000

Graduation is an exciting time for any student, and that goes for anyone graduating from high school, college, or even graduate school this year. New graduates need to have the edge wherever their next step will be, whether it’s in the business world or further into academia. An important component of this edge is a [...]

IBM Bans Siri, Dropbox, iCloud And More

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:26:04 +0000

Following the lead of other large businesses, IBM implemented a “bring your own device” policy in 2010, allowing employees who work outside of the office to use devices other than corporate-issued smartphones. Unfortunately, the company felt it had to follow this liberal policy with a conservative ban on technologies that IBM considered potential security issues. [...]

NY To Shut Down Anonymous Online Comments, Plastic Surgeon Says “First!”

Mordechai Luchins — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:58:07 +0000

One of my personal netiquette rules is that I try to never, ever read the comment section of a new site. For all the legitimate, insightful comments accompanying an article, there are generally a dozen inanities. We’re not always talking trolling — sometimes it’s just someone who thinks they’re funny or who honestly feels [...]

Meet The Guy Who Stole Katy’s iPhone

Mordechai Luchins — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:48:20 +0000

Ah, temptation. You see a device just sitting there, say an iPhone, so you decide to swipe it. Except, it turns out that you’re not too technically inclined, and you don’t take the time to erase it. Unbeknownst to you, the iPhone starts saving the photos you’re snapping to the original owner’s PhotoStream. Oops. According [...]

Facebook Stocks Tumble: Cue Unfriending Quips

Matt Algren — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:56:02 +0000

I’m not usually the go-to guy to talk about the stock market, but allow me to quietly guffaw at Facebook’s disastrous second day on Monday as the newly-public company’s stock lost 10.99 percent of its price at the end of trading on Friday. Making matters worse, Friday’s closing price was reportedly artificially pumped up by [...]

Verizon Says You Can Keep Unlimited Data By Paying Full Retail Price

Reuven Shechter — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:32:51 +0000

That’s right. Verizon will let you keep your unlimited data, but only if you purchase phones for their full retail prices. As Techcitement discussed earlier, Verizon plans to force its customers to change to a new tiered data plan when upgrading after new shared data plans become available mid-summer this year. Verizon won’t automatically move [...]

Smaller iPads? Larger iPhones? What Gives?

Mordechai Luchins — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:00:18 +0000

We ususally avoid tackling rumors, but when the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg are all talking about it, then it’s officially time to weigh in. The rumor in question is that the next iPhone will have a four-inch screen, instead of the three-and-a-half inch screen that the iPhone has had since 2007. Bloomberg even [...]